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Past 42 APD-involved shootings in order

There have been 42 Albuquerque police officer-involved shootings since January 2010. Click through to read about each shooting in chronological order. A January 2015 blue-on-blue shooting and incident in which Officer Lou Golson was shot during a traffic stop are not included on this list.

Fatal, 1.9.10, Aaron Renfro

Renfro, 32, was a convicted felon. He was pulled over for speeding. Several people inside the car had outstanding warrants, and Renfro ran. After pulling from the traffic stop, he brandished a gun and officers shot.

Fatal, 1.13.10, Kenneth Ellis III

Ellis was shot and killed by police when he had a gun pressed against his temple. He was a veteran of the Iraq War. Ellis’ sister said he was holding the gun to his head crying for help and there was no reason to shoot. According to the ABQ Journal, the city agreed to settle (in a wrongful death suit) for $7.95 million under the terms of a tentative settlement reached with the family.

Non-fatal, 1.29.10, Wayne Cordova

Cordova, 22 at the time, was responsible for a standoff at Sandia High School. At the time he’d been convicted of several crimes. In 2003 he had 11 criminal charges filed against him. Cordova went to UNMH in critical condition after being shot.

Non-fatal, 3.4.10, Jose Castillo

According to the ABQ Journal, Castillo and others fled from a gas station after stealing beer. The subsequent car chase went through the city’s west side. Didn’t appear anyone in the car was armed when they were shot at.

Fatal, 3.29.10, Mickey Owings

Owings was ramming cars in a Walmart parking lot. He tried to get away when police attempted to surround his vehicle. According to the ABQ Journal, a pregnant was in the vehicle during the incident. A jury ruled this shooting justified.

Non-fatal, 4.14.10, Benjamin Marquez

Police were questioning a group of men at a convenience store (on suspicion of a drug deal) when one of the men took off on foot. Police said when they caught up to Marquez, he pointed a gun at an officer. Officers then hit him three times in the upper body. At that time he’d had nine arrests in his criminal history.

Fatal, 6.10.10, Chris Hinz

Hinz spurred a SWAT standoff. Police said they had to use force on Hinz, who was drunk and firing shots inside his home. He was home alone. His family said he needed help and an intervention. Police said he was intoxicated and came at them with a rifle.

Fatal, 6:14.10, Julian Calbert

Calbert, then 42, had kidnapped two women. He used a knife to hold the women hostage, and made one watch while he beat the other, his wife. He punched an officer and threatened him with a knife when confronted outside of a truck stop. The officer then shot and killed Calbert.

Fatal, 7.27.10, Len Fuentes

Fuentes was killed when he pulled out a knife on police during a domestic violence call. Police said he lunged at them with a knife, and Fuentes was then shot once in the stomach and once in the chest. Fuentes’ family said the man suffered from some kind of mental illness.

Fatal, 8.17.10, Enrique Carrasco

Carrasco was shot seven times. Police said this came after Carrasco attacked an officer with a knife. Police said the officer Carrasco attacked was in a fight for his life. Carrasco was shot once in the forehead, once in the back of the head, twice in the scalp and three times in the back.

Non-fatal, 9.14.10, Chandler Barr

Barr, a mentally disabled man from Oklahoma, was shot by police after becoming upset because of a bus ticket. He was diagnosed as being bipolar. He pulled a butter knife on an officer and was shot twice. Barr sued the city.

Fatal, 10.19.10, Daniel Gonzales

Albuquerque officers were helped to ask help in a standoff with a barricaded suspect in Tucumcari. As the incident stretched into its sixth hour, an officer fatally shot Gonzales, 56 at the time. He’d been involved in a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.

Fatal, 10.31.10, Alexei Sinkevitch

Sinkevitch was threatening officers with an assault rifle outside of his home, according to the ABQ Journal. Police were responding to a report of a jeep striking four parked cars in NW ABQ. Police said the butt of the firearm was tucked under Sinkevitch’s arm, and the weapon was pointed straight out in front of him.

Non-fatal, 11.11.10, Russell Tenorio

Police were called to Tenorio's home after getting a call that he had been drinking and was threatening to harm himself with a knife. Pitzer has said Tenorio was walking toward him with blank look on his face carrying a knife and ignoring commands to drop it. Tenorio was shot at that time. Tenorio filed a lawsuit against APD.

Fatal, 2.9.11, Jacob Mitschelen

Police shot Mitschelen as Mitschelen turned toward an officer with a gun in his hand. A review panel ruled it justified. The case drew national headlines after revelations that the officer involved had listed his job description on Facebook as "human waste disposal."

Fatal, 4.12.11, Christopher Torres

Torres’ family said he suffered from schizophrenia. Torres was shot and killed when the officers went to his parents’ home to arrest him for a road rage incident. The family filed a lawsuit claiming APD didn’t have adequate services to handle people with disabilities. The officers involved were not charged.

Fatal, 5.10.11, Alan Gomez

The officer involved was accused of shooting and killing an unarmed man. Gomez was shot in the back during a walk home. The officer thought he was holding a gun, but it turned out to be a kitchen utensil. It wasn’t the first time the officer had been involved in an officer-involved shooting. The city agreed to pay a $900K settlement to the family.

Fatal, 6.4.11, Raymond Garcia

According to the ABQ Journal, Garcia, 41 at the time, was shot and killed by officers after he hijacked a pickup truck driver at gunpoint in the parking lot of a liquor store and then led officers on a high speed pursuit. Garcia had been out of prison fewer than two months, and ignored officer commands to drop the weapon he was holding.

Non-fatal, 6.26.11, Orlando Paisano

Paisano said he was Tased and shot eight times. It started when his girlfriend called police and said she’d been beaten. Officers Tased Paisano when they showed up, but it didn’t work. Paisano was armed with a bayonet, and officers fired.

Fatal: 8.30.11: Michael Marquez

Marquez was an armed robbery suspect. SWAT teams were called to an apartment that Marquez eventually fled from, clutching bag. Later, in an open field, officers tried to negotiate with Marquez, 31 at the time. Police said he then raised an AK-47 at officers before being fatally shot.

Fatal: 1.4.12: Mark Macoldowna

According to the ABQ Journal, Macoldowna also used the name Mark Beechum, was a self-described Constitutionalist and hated Catholics. He was shot while trying to rob a church. Macoldowna was hit by four of five bullets fired.

Fatal: 3.19.12: Daniel Tillison

Tillison, at the time, had 59 past arrests. Police responded to a call about someone selling stolen stereo equipment. Officers arrived to the area, and Tillison would not show officers his hands. Tillison jumped a parking barrier in his car. Tillison then pulled out his cellphone, to show officers his hands. The officer saw the “dark item” and shot Tillison in the chest, killing him with one shot.

Fatal: 3.21.12: Gary Atencio

Atencio tried to shot his estranged wife and sped off in a Mustang with $90,000 in cash. After a pursuit, officers thought he was in the car. He wasn’t, and when they found him he had a gun to his own head. A shot rang out, and officers didn’t know who fired. Because homes were in the area, an officer shot and killed Atencio.

Non-fatal: 4.19.12: Dennis Aragon

Aragon pointed a rifle at police. Police then shot Paisano three times. Police said Aragon pointed the rifle at several people, and was in the area looking for someone who ripped him off during a drug deal.

Non-fatal: 6.20.12: Santiago Chavez

According to the ABQ Journal, during a SWAT situation, an officer fired at least eight shots into a home. Those shots didn’t kill Chavez, who would eventually shoot and kill himself after a 15-hour standoff. Chavez was at his grandmother’s house at the time. The city gave the grandmother 30 days to fix the damage done to her home. A suit was eventually filed regarding issues related to the shooting.

Non-fatal: 8.6.12: Dominick Solis-Mora

According to the ABQ Journal, it occurred during an undercover drug sting. Solis-Mora pulled a gun from under his thighs when he saw police advancing and one gunshot can be heard at that point on lapel camera video. At the time he’d been arrested 9 times in a two year span before the incident.

Fatal: 3.5.13: Parrish Dennison

Dennison, 41 at the time, was armed with a handgun and led police on a foot chase. Dennison jumped out of a getaway car and ran through a strip mall, climbing a fence to get on a roof. He pointed a handgun at an officer before jumping down and losing police. Hours later he was flushed out by the APD helicopter and was shot at least three times.

Fatal: 3.19.13: APD shot at Kendall Carroll, but he was killed by NMSP

It was after a five-hour standoff. Carroll’s brother surrendered. Officers flooded an apartment complex looking for Carroll, who had shot an officer. Police said it was clear he wasn’t going to go peacefully. A tip led SWAT officers to the complex, and that’s when he was killed by a tactical sniper.

Fatal: 7.5.13: Vincent Wood

Wood’s family said he, 66 at the time, had been diagnosed with PTSD. He brandished two 10” butcher knives at officers at a gas station. He was shot nine times.

Fatal: 10.26.13: Christopher Chase

Chase shot and injured three officers and a deputy while firing an assault rifle out of a stolen police car. He eventually crashed into a gas station, and the crashed car was fired upon several times by officers. He had a tattoo that read “cop killer.”

Non-fatal: 10.28.13: Joaquin Ortega

Authorities received reports Ortega was armed. They said he tried to carjack someone, robbed a grandmother and her grandson at a bus stop and tried to car jack someone else. Prior to that, police said he took pills and alcohol and drove. He wouldn’t show officers his hands, the officer feared for his life, and the officer fired eight shots.

Non-fatal: 11.15.13: Robert Garcia, Sr.

Garcia was armed and authorities said he tried to commit “suicide by cop” by ignoring several demands to put his gun down.

Non-fatal: 12.1.13: Shane Sherrill

Sherrill is a convicted felon. He was shot after police were called to a domestic incident near Wyoming and Indian School. His girlfriend had called police when he hit her car with a backpack. According to the ABQ Journal, he was holding a brake pad and/or knife and simulating a gun.

Fatal: 12.8.13: Andy Snider

Snider was asked to put his hands on his head after allegedly becoming violent with another man. He ran from officers and was eventually cornered. He went at an officer with a hammer, and then was fatally shot.

Non-fatal: 1.9.14: Jeremy Robertson

Robertson led police on a chase. He had been under surveillance by APD’s repeat offender unit. Officers followed him to a Walgreens, and when they approached him he ran. He attempted to hit a police cruiser and his tires were shot out by officers.

Fatal: 3.16.14: James Boyd

Boyd was camping illegally in the foothills. He had agreed to come down from the hill he was on when police used a flag bang grenade, bean bag rounds, Tasers and bullets on him. At one point during the standoff he had knives in his hands. He had a history of mental illness.

Fatal: 3.25.14: Alfred Redwine

Hours after a protest against officer-involved shootings, Redwine was shot and killed by police. Lapel video shows a witness saying Redwine had threatened two teen girls with a gun. Police tried for 40 minutes to get him out of his home. When he came out, police said Redwine fired his weapon, and an officer fired his. Redwine’s sister said he didn’t fire. Four officers were put on leave after the shooting.

Fatal 4.21.2014: 19-year-old Mary Hawkes was fatally shot. APD said she pointed a weapon at an officer during a foot chase over a stolen vehicle.

Fatal, 5.5.2014: Police said they shot Armand Martin, 50, after an hours-long standoff that ended with him firing at police with two handguns.

May 22, 2014, fatal: Police receive calls about a woman who’d been beaten and possibly raped. Witnesses said when a good Samaritan intervened, the offender slashed his throat. When officers tracked down the offender, Ralph Chavez, he asked them to shoot him. They said they didn’t want to. During crisis intervention procedures, Chavez advanced on them with a knife and they fired at him. He died at the scene.

July 22, 2014, fatal: Jeremy Robertson, a 33-year-old wanted man, ran into Albuquerque detectives at a gas station near Central and Eubank. Police said he fled to a gas station across the street. They also said he was armed. He ran into SWAT officers on a nearby street and surveillance video shows officers asking him to drop his gun before shots were fired. Police said he posed an immediate threat to the officers.

Jan. 13, 2015, fatal: Police responded to a suspicious criminal activity call. They took one man into custody and then chased John Okeefe who fled on foot. Police said Okeefe fired at police multiple times. He was then fatally shot by police, and was found wearing a bulletproof vest.

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